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portada A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14Th Century
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
1987
Language
English
Pages
784
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
20.8 x 14.0 x 4.3 cm
Weight
0.61 kg.
ISBN
0345349571
ISBN13
9780345349576
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14Th Century

Barbara W. Tuchman (Author) · Random House Trade · Paperback

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14Th Century - Tuchman, Barbara W.

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Synopsis "A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14Th Century"

A "marvelous history"* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years' War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, noble, and clergy alike. Granting her subjects their loyalties, treacheries, and guilty passions, Tuchman re-creates the lives of proud cardinals, university scholars, grocers and clerks, saints and mystics, lawyers and mercenaries, and, dominating all, the knight--in all his valor and "furious follies," a "terrible worm in an iron cocoon." Praise for A Distant Mirror "Beautifully written, careful and thorough in its scholarship . . . What Ms. Tuchman does superbly is to tell how it was. . . . No one has ever done this better."--The New York Review of Books "A beautiful, extraordinary book . . . Tuchman at the top of her powers . . . She has done nothing finer."--The Wall Street Journal "Wise, witty, and wonderful . . . a great book, in a great historical tradition."--Commentary

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Cristian Oyarce Wednesday, December 09, 2020
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Al concluir la lectura y comprarlo con lo sucedido en el mundo los últimos 20 años y sobre todo éste año 2020, me pregunto si habremos entrado a un siglo de calamidades. Gran trabajo de la autora, te deja muchas preguntas.

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Agustin Benavente Ariztia Thursday, September 08, 2022
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excelente¡ Barbara Tuchman fué una gran historiadora que narraba como contando una novela de aventuras

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Horacio Verges Monday, April 24, 2023
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Muy interesante.

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